Chris Letcher
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article or section is written like an advertisement. Please help rewrite this article from a neutral point of view per Wikipedia policy. Mark blatant advertising for speedy deletion with {{db-spam}}. (help, talk) |
Chris Letcher is a South African-born singer songwriter and film composer based in London. Letcher and his band recently toured South Africa in support of the release of the album Frieze, which is due to be released in the UK and the rest of the world on Sheer Sound in May. The band have been invited to play the 2007 South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas in March. Chris and the band are playing major music festivals in South Africa over Easter. Letcher has recently completed the soundtrack to Claire Angelique's forthcoming film for Zerntropa studios, My Black Little Heart, and is studying towards a doctorate in film music composition at the Royal College of Music. With five critically acclaimed albums of his own work behind him, the new album Frieze has been receiving rave reviews in South Africa in advance of its UK release in April 2007. The London-based band performing and recording Chris's songs are David Eugene Webb (drums/accordion), Chris Letcher (guitar/harmonium/synths/singing), Andrew Joseph (bass), Ross Richardson (guitar/voice) and Victoria Hume (keyboards, voice). FHM magazine (Feb 2007) describe the album, Frieze, as "the most sophisticated rock album ever made by a South African Artist" . The Mail and Guardian (Nov 2006): "Chris Letcher is one of the greatest songwriters to grace the shores of this southern-most tip of Africa".
For more information, music and video, visit http://www.letchermusic.com http://www.myspace.com/letchermusic
"This is simply a great album. Truly world class. Intricate, complex, melodic, ambitious, funny, literate and so damn listenable it will make you gasp... Probably the best songwriter this country has produced for years" - ***** Jeremy Daniel, The Star
http://www.tonight.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=348&fArticleId=3541146
"The album Frieze illustrates that Chris Letcher is one of the greatest songwriters to grace the shores of this southern-most tip of Africa. Its 16 tracks are typical Letcher fare -- intimate literary excursions. But, these new songs are transformed into a mature collage of sound " **** Lloyd Gedye, Mail & Guardian http://www.chico.mweb.co.za/art/2006/2006nov/061117-home.html
"A 16-track album, Frieze is everything that Letcher promised in those early years -- keenly intelligent, musically dense, utterly memorable, always sliding through any attempts to nail it down to a genre. In its expansive musical vision that is unafraid to hook in experimental sounds - Letcher's solo offering could be called art rock or art pop even but even then these descriptions really don't do justice to Frieze... It's impossible not to be drawn into the highly visual and moody lyrical content." Diane Coetzer, Entertainment Africa
“This is the most sophisticated rock album ever made by a South African artist…multi-layered rock with genius-clever lyrics and a mysterious soothing quality”- ***** FHM
“I like. I like a lot…Letcher’s crisp urgent tones come across like a handclap” - **** Damon Boyd, Sunday Times
